Posts by Loyal Commenter

He jumped bail - or are you claiming that his observably (and well documented) doing of such was actually a lie from the judge? That's what he has been sent down for. As far as clear-cut cases go, I'm not sure how much clearer you could get.

As for "misuse of taxpayers millions"; presumably you are arguing that spending money on policing and holding everyone to the same level of accountability is misuse of money? Because he's "famous", he shoudl have been allowed to jump bail with no consequences? Really, just give it a rest. He committed a crime, got arrested, had a fair trial, was convicted on the evidence and got sent down - that's the justice system working properly.

Re: When people like this exist...

Careful now, you do know you're now going to get the blame the next time the paper jams...

Re: But... But... But...

You missed out the fact it is going to require batteries, that will need charging.

Given that this only has to work when the trolley is in motion, dynamos on the wheels and a bank of capacitors should do the trick. Of course, then people are going to repurpose them to make home-made cattleprods...

Re: Gotta Feel sorry for the Dev

IMHO, devs are the ones who should be issued with the steelies in order to administer the kickings, usually to the sales / marketing droids or PMs who have promised functionality to the client that not only does not exist, but cannot be made to exist in the timescale that they have made up to meet their quarterly sales targets, because they have zero technical knowledge of the thing they are allegedly an expert in, and care only about when they'll be able to buy their next new Audi or where their next baggy of coke is coming from.

Re: Why assume it's Microsoft's fault?

My money is on that change being a change ot the order in which ti does things. An order which no doubt was not documented, but AV vendors took it upon themselves to assume would not change. Whose fault is it? You decide.

And this is why core security functions (such as password verification / encryption etc.) should be baked into the silicon, not flashed into firmware. Admittedly this means that if there is a flaw in your implementation then you can't fix it without replacing the hardware, but that's why you stick to reference implementations and don't roll your own...

Re: Here have a can of worms...

Presumably, if the plane is over international waters, it's the Law of the Sea, except the US isn't a signatory to that...

Re: Binary systems

...in terms of stability of orbits, if you have two widely spaced stars, planets around either are not going to be graviotationally affected very much by the distant star (think about how much Jupiter affects the Earth's orbit for example). On the other hand, if there are two co-orbiting stars surrounded by planets (such as in this system), you might expect some crazy tides (in the same way as spring and neap tides are affected by the relative positions fo the Sun and Moon). Depending on the mass of the stars, and how closely they orbit each other, such planetary orbits may be less affected than you might think.

Re: So...

Cleaner comes round and discovers they can actually get in to somewhere they don't normally go.

To be fair, you're assuming it's the same cleaner from one day to the next. As far as I am aware, it is a badly-paid low-skilled job with crappy conditions, and the associated high staff turnover you might expect. The cleaner in question could well have been on their first day at that location.

Re: American Gods

Instead of filming that and being done with it, they'll string it out until they get cancelled

Neil Gaiman has apprently been closely involved in the series, and one would hope that he won't allow that to happen (he has already effectively said the same about the upcoming adaptation of Good Omens - it will end where the book ends and not get any sequels).

...whether or not it's sexual assault to have sex with a sleepy person...

FWIW, unless someone has clearly consented for you to have sex with them whilst they are asleep, it's rape. Whether or not you'll get prosecuted is by-the-bye, if you do it, you're a scumbag.

Re: Cognitive dissonance?

The same effect can be observed via gravitational lensing if you move the Earth too close to a black hole...

Ctrl+Alt+4 => €

It's even marked on most keyboards, assuming you're not using another OS™

(that one's Alt+0153...)

Re: real men test bullet proof vests

FWIW, it's spelt naïve, which is exactly what that sort of comment is...

Re: No less a vulnerability for being indirect.

I'm no chip designer, but surely it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility for Intel to bake the paths for this into all their chips, for debuggin purposes, and then just dike it out for the RTM version? If nothing else, they're presumably giving away secrets to their competitors by not doing so...

Re: music-for-people-who-don't-like-music

Some geezer named after a dog biscuit wasn't it?

Re: Exploding heads...

What the hell is the point in that supposed to be? I would have thought something like that would be squirrelled away with the gimmicky 'filters'...

Re: Yes....

They seem to be having a spot of bother getting it to boot up again...

I think it's fair to say that the consent data may no longer be in existence, but surely VL should have been able to produce evidence that it was gaining consent?

Such as a copy of the leaflets they sent out that said, "by giving us your mobile number, you consent to being contacted" with the little (unticked) box next to it?

I think the pertinent question is whether such a thing actually existed. I find it hard to believe that there would now be no evidence of it if it had. Much as I disagree with pretty much everything put out by VL, if the ICO has evidence that they were obtaining consent for communications, but now no longer hold the details of specific consents, then they really should have no case to answer.

I reckon the ICO know this too, not being entirely inexperienced in being a regulator, so I reckon on balance, VL were asked to produce such evidence, and were either unable or unwilling to do so.

Re: This happened to me a few days ago!

I'd advise thinking with your brain and not your gonads...

Re: Huh?

I randomly picked a town where the population is about 250k. The number of cells in the human body is 30-40 trillion, and the population of Swansea is apparently 241,300. 2^63 is approx 9.2 x 10^18 so this works out pretty spot on if you take the number of cells in the human body as 38.2 trillion...

So, if you took every single cell of every single human being in Swansea and allocated each a random 63 bit ID, you'd expect a 50/50 chance of getting a previously assigned number when you got to around the 120,000th person.

I think the important thing to take note of here is that you were fixing problems for intellignet people with good degrees, and technical jobs.

Now try the same thig with a room full of salespeople or project managers, and see how much gratitude you get. You'll probably get back to your desk and receive a pile of complaints about how you didn't offer to make anyone a coffee.

Re: Faster than light not needed?

It's a sci-fi trope that the crew of such a ship will arrive at their destination to find that their own descendants will have already got there, using FTL drives / wormholes / magic sci-fi mechanic of choice, and colonised it first.

I still have, somewhere, a present that was bought for me some years ago, consisting of a digital watch with a hidden USB cable underneath that gave access to... a 'secret' 32Mb flash drive!

Spy tech of the future it was not.

You're right of course - I meant precise, rather than accurate...